Thank you for considering visiting us in Dominica to volunteer with all the ongoing work that is needed following the devastation of Hurricane Maria last year.
We have proudly receiving guests and have made a remarkable recovery so far.
Since the beginning of 2004, 3 Rivers & Rosalie Forest has been welcoming volunteer workers from around the globe. The arrangement has proved to be mutually beneficial. Our excellent local staff do a great job running the lodge, However since the hurricane we certainly welcome all hands on deck to help here at the ecolodge and, by extension, our surrounding community.
Your help is beyond appreciated.
Depending on your particular skills, and our particular needs at the time, will determine exactly which work you do during your stay. You will also be asked to share what knowledge and experience you have with our small team of cool staff.
Let us know how you see yourself fitting in and what you would like to do with your time.
It helps us a great deal if you are able to pay for your room, and if you do we pamper you just like any other guest, and you choose your favourite room. Help out as many days as you wish, and mix as much of your time as you desire relaxing and exploring.
If you wish to really get stuck in to the work, and don’t want to be treated like a guest, but rather be one of the team, and are giving us around 4 days a week of your time, we are happy to offer you a bed in the dormitory for free.
Since hurricane maria we need to ask all volunteers to cover the cost of your food. When our gardens grow back food from the garden will be free.
VOLUNTEER HELP NEEDED.
1. If you have a chainsaw and know how to use it, your help would be invaluable. We next want to rebuild our staff house and office, cutting boards from trees that fell during the storm.
2. Skilled carpenters won’t be short of a rum or two from us and our friends. We also have plenty of carpentry work going here at the lodge so all help welcome.
3. There is also still plenty of trail and garden clearing to be done, so if you are happy to chop and clear with machetes then you won’t be short of work.
4. If you can take care of the cooking, the room cleaning, or restaurant service/cleaning, freeing us up for other jobs, that too would be a MASSIVE help.
5. If you enjoy being outdoors and love gardening back home, we have endless gardening tasks here at the lodge. Having progressed well with the rebuilding, we want to concentrate on replanting and restructuring our gardens.
6. Any tools or equipment that are brought that could be left upon departure will have a life of good use for sure.
7. Many of our volunteers so far have also taken on their own little project to leave their mark on the lodge. If you have any ideas or suggestions for little projects or improvements that suit your particular skills; and hopefully you enjoy, then let us know and it can most probably happen
8. In addition to work tasks, we welcome small donations that fit in your luggage for the local village school such as books, pens, calculators, flash drives, art equipment, white board markers, reward stickers, glue, and so on.